MPs will back Iraq-only attacks
One minister said the truth is that the attacks that will be authorised with today’s vote are one step on a ladder of 20 rungs and no one really knows what the other steps will turn out to be.
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One minister said the truth is that the attacks that will be authorised with today’s vote are one step on a ladder of 20 rungs and no one really knows what the other steps will turn out to be.
The political fight over Scottish devolution is raging, and the Tories seem unwilling to move unless the question of English governance is answered.
Men are still overly represented in the post-reshuffle government – but that’s not what it feels like to some grumbling Tory males around Westminster.
Education Secretary Michael Gove is to become the new chief whip in the most wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle of David Cameron’s premiership.
William Hague stands down as foreign secretary and will stay in the cabinet as Leader of the Commons, Downing Street confirms.
How do you solve a problem like Europe? Former prime minister Tony Blair has a go, suggesting Britain should lead on reform in Brussels, while current leader David Cameron gets into an EU spat.
Britain’s intelligence agencies were reluctant to highlight concerns over how terror suspects were treated by other countries for fear of damaging international relationships, a report finds.
David Cameron isn’t keen to engage in the debate about Ukip. But as far as the people he was speaking to on the campaign trail are concerned, winning back votes from Ukip is far from over.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says better-off older people should hand back benefits like free bus passes and free TV licences if they do not need them.
Downing Street is considering a temporary withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights so that Abu Qatada can be deported. But legal experts tell Channel 4 News it is “highly unlikely”.
Inside Margaret Thatcher’s funeral: Political Editor Gary Gibbon on the “walking Madame Tussauds” of political yesteryear gathered in St Paul’s.
The bitter divisions over Margaret Thatcher’s downfall live on. One Tory minister said it was all still too raw to talk about.
Have Treasury civil servants been sending coded warnings that public sector cuts might be getting out of hand? The IFS thinks so, blogs Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
In the backwash of the Eastleigh by election result, Tory propaganda has swerved to the right, but will the upcoming budget do enough to buy off the gathering rebels?
With headlines suggesting David Cameron is preparing to push a tougher Tory line on issues such as immigration, Political Editor Gary Gibbon asks if the PM is trying to imitate Ukip?